Youth Grants Programme

 

Monitoring Report

 

 

1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1.     Provider Overview.. 3

2.     Activity by Month. 4

3.     YP’s Area of Residence. 5

4.     Age Profile. 5

5.     Special Educational Needs. 6

6.     Ethnicity. 6

7.     Activities. 7

8.     Youth Grant Outcomes. 9

9.     Progress Star. 10

 

 


 

1.     Provider Overview

 

§  Contacts are defined as the number of individuals unique to each provider.

§  Visits are the total number ofyoung people attending activities.

§  Tenants are young people living in Brighton & Hove Council housing.

 

On average, young people attend an activity eight times over the year.

36% of visits by young people living in Brighton & Hove are made by council tenants.

Unique

Contacts

Number

of Visits

Average

 Visits per

 Contact

Visits by

Council

Tenants

% Visits

by Council

 Tenants

BH BYC - Brighton Youth Centre

810

5,291

7

1,318

25%

BH Hangleton and Knoll

249

2,935

12

1,485

51%

BH Tarnerland

232

1,666

7

271

16%

BH The Deans Youth Project

66

790

12

301

38%

BH The Trust for Dev. Communities

382

2,343

6

1,312

56%

BH YAC

230

347

2

47

14%

BH YPC

92

541

6

124

23%

Overall

1,833[*]

13,913

8

4,858

35%

Brighton & Hove residents only

1,680

13,370

8

4,851

36%

 

 

In addition to the information recorded on the ASPIRE case management system (above), the following groups provided support for 536 young people, who made more than four thousand visits to these services over the year.

 

Unique Contacts

Number of Visits

Average Visits per Contact

Allsorts

193

1,614

8

BMEYPP

133

1,429

11

Extratime

19

461

24

TDC Young Travellers

101

404

4

YPC Global Social

90

432

5

Total

536[†]

4,340

8

 


 

2.     Activity by Month

The number of visits to Youth Services each month is seasonal with fewer numbers in December to February and peak numbers in May/June.

 

 

Ø  Brighton Youth Centre was the largest contributor to the peak in May, with 761 visits, their highest of the year.

Ø  The Hangleton & Knoll Project had the next highest numbers in May, at 375, but their busiest month was August, with 426 visits. This peak is hidden in the chart above as most other providers see some of their lowest numbers in August.

Ø  The peak in November is only slightly above the annual average (+189 more visits in November against a monthly average of 1,159) but seems higher when viewed against a dip in visitor levels of a similar scale (-215 against the average) in August.

 


 

3.     YP’s Area of Residence

The chart below shows the number of young people living in each area of the city.

 

 

Note: it is currently not possible to report on the area of service delivery, but this has been noted for future development.

4.     Age Profile

72% of young people worked with are under the age of 18.

 

 

5.     Special Educational Needs

49% of contacts were successfully matched to the January 2019 schools census in order to find their SEN status (YP were not matched where they live out of area, do not attend mainstream provision or are school leavers). This is compared to the percentage of children and young people with SEN provision across the entire census.

Contacts

% Contacts

% Jan'19 Census

Difference

EHCP

95[‡]

10%

3%

+7%

SEN Support

247

27%

14%

+13%

6.     Ethnicity

As above, 49% of contacts were successfully matched to the January 2019 school census in order to find their ethnicity; this is compared with the percentage of each ethnicity across the entire census. The comparison indicates that Youth Services work with a greater proportion of ethnic minority groups than the city average.

Ethnicity

Contacts[§]

% Contacts

Jan'19 Census

Difference

White -British

733

65.0%

72.0%

-7.0%

White -Irish

2

0.2%

0.6%

-0.4%

Traveller of Irish heritage[**]

101

9.0%

0.1%

8.8%

White Eastern European

11

1.0%

2.0%

-1.0%

White Western European

6

0.5%

1.6%

-1.0%

White other

16

1.4%

3.8%

-2.4%

Gypsy/Roma

0

0.0%

0.1%

-0.1%

White and Black Caribbean

24

2.1%

1.7%

0.4%

White and Black African

34

3.0%

2.1%

0.9%

White and Asian

28

2.5%

2.8%

-0.4%

Any other mixed background

26

2.3%

3.3%

-1.0%

Indian

4

0.4%

0.7%

-0.4%

Pakistani

11

1.0%

0.2%

0.8%

Bangladeshi

4

0.4%

1.1%

-0.8%

Any other Asian background

8

0.7%

1.3%

-0.6%

Black Caribbean

25

2.2%

0.1%

2.1%

Black -African

55

4.9%

1.6%

3.3%

Any other Black background

12

1.1%

0.3%

0.7%

Chinese

0

0.0%

0.6%

-0.6%

Arab other

3

0.3%

1.3%

-1.1%

Iranian

2

0.2%

0.2%

0.0%

Kurdish

0

0.0%

0.1%

-0.1%

Other ethnic group

12

1.1%

1.0%

0.1%

Refused

11

1.0%

1.2%

-0.2%

7.     Activities

The table shows activities recorded on Aspire, provided to young people over the year and grouped by provider. Unique contacts are unique to each activity, that is, if a young person attended more than one activity they will be counted under both (see page 3 for unique contacts by provider). Coloured shading and data bars show a comparison across all provider activities. More detail on activities can be found here.

 


 

 

Other Activities

A further 112 young people that do not have ASPIRE records were supported by the Trust for Developing Communities at the activities listed above.

 

In addition, TDC supported 984 young people at the 2018 Pride and LoveBN1 festivals. 605 (61%) of these YP were female and 379 (39%) male.


 

8.     Youth Grant Outcomes

 

Unique contacts by number of outcomes achieved

Contacts

% of 1,833 Contacts

Achieving at least 1 outcome

1308

71%

Achieving 2 or more outcomes

1150

63%

Achieving 3 or more outcomes

897

49%

Achieving all 4 outcomes

584

32%

 

Unique contacts achieving each outcome category

Contacts

% of 1,833 Contacts

Community Cohesion and Civic Society

998

54%

Greater Self-Awareness, agency, confidence

1189

65%

Raised and Positive Aspirations

761

42%

Skills

991

54%

 

Total outcomes by category

Outcomes

% of 10,388 Outcomes

Community Cohesion and Civic Society

3254

31%

Greater Self-Awareness, agency, confidence

4056

39%

Raised and Positive Aspirations

1130

11%

Skills

1948

19%

 

Outcomes by YP's

 area of residence

Contacts

% Contacts by area

Outcomes

% of Outcomes by area

BH Central

563

31%

2576

25%

BH East

260

14%

1400

13%

BH North

435

24%

3068

30%

BH West

422

23%

2727

26%

East Sussex

114

6%

426

4%

West Sussex

39

2%

191

2%

 

Outcomes by Youth Service Provider

Contacts

% Contacts by provider

Outcomes

% of Outcomes by provider

BH BYC - Brighton Youth Centre

810

39%

3488

34%

BH Hangleton and Knoll

249

12%

2198

21%

BH Tarnerland

232

11%

345

3%

BH The Deans Youth Project

66

3%

281

3%

BH The Trust for Developing Communities

382

19%

2856

27%

BH YAC

230

11%

703

7%

BH YPC

92

4%

517

5%

 

Note: comparisons between % contacts and % outcomes are given as an approximation of cohort sizes; outcome goals vary greatly between activity types and several YP are supported by multiple Youth Providers.

9.     Progress Star

A trial of Progress Star outcomes began in July 2018 and we now have results for 53 young people. Initial (baseline) assessment scores are compared to the most recent assessment scores over five assessment elements.

 

The chart below shows the percentage of scores which have decreased, remained static, or increased for each element, and is split by gender.

 

 

·         Confidence has the largest increase with 62% of YP reporting improvements.

·         This is followed by ‘community’ and ‘skills’, both with 58% increases.

·         The element with least change is ‘involvement’, which also has the largest gender gap with 57% of males not feeling more or less involved, compared to 41% of females.

·         ‘Feeling positive about the future’ stands out as having the largest % of dipped scores. 11% of YP now feel less confident about the future and there is a 6% gap between females and males (13% female, 7% male).

·         Involvement and positive future are the only areas with more static scores than improvements, and this is only for males.

·         ‘How skilled I feel’ is the only area without any decreasing scores.

 

 

 



[*] Total unique contacts for all services are less than the sum of unique contacts for each provider as young people attend more than one service.

[†]As these groups do not share a client database, there may be some double-counting of YP attending more than one group.

[‡] Includes 19 young people with EHCPs supported by Extratime

[§] Includes BMEYPP and Young Travellers (TDC)

[**] As the specific ethnicity of travellers worked with is unknown, they are all recorded here as ‘Traveller of Irish Heritage’.